Celia has been working hard on her communication skills lately even if she’s a little confused at times. Today at lunch she did three signs immediately in a row for “all done, more, and wash hands” in that order. We were very confused, but highly enthusiastic of her making any signs. She waves at everyone and everything. We walk out of the house and she starts waving in anticipation of seeing someone, even if no one is there. If someone isn’t waving back or saying hi, she’ll often start making noising in combination to get their attention. She will do the wash hands sign when we turn on the water. Clearly I wash my hands a lot.

Yesterday she said one of her first attributable words. She often says ‘mama’ and ‘hi’, so maybe those are the first words. But this one was clear as day about her intention. She walked into the living room, pointed at the yoga ball and said ‘ball’. Jordi had rolled her around on it some the night before so she was excited about it. I also sometimes think I hear her say ‘thank you’ and ‘hello’ at appropriate times. She clearly is mimicking words we say to her as well.

Her receptive language is accumulating quickly too. She’ll bring a ball when asked, kiss me sometimes when asked, and go looking around when I say ‘where’s Josie?’ All of this development has of course come at a steep price of highly interrupted and resisted sleep.

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